Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Allen Ginsberg. PLANET NEWS. San Francisco, City Lights, 1968.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: San Francisco, City Lights. 1st ed. 1968. 144 pages. Black and white stiff printed wrappers. SIGNED by the author on the t.p. Three lines have been highlighted in red. Wraps soiled and worn. Previous owner signed on t.p.
Seller: Tom Davies Rare Books, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Planet News: 1961-1967 (Signed). City Lights, 1968.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Softcover, 12mo. 7th printing. Signed & dated on title page. 144 pp. Black & white wraps. Scarce signed copy.
Seller: David Morrison Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Allen Ginsberg. Planet News. City Lights Books, 1968.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968. First edition. Number Twenty Three in the Pocket Poets Series. Signed and dated (1993) by Allen Ginsberg on the title page. In VG condition with light toning and shelf wear. BOX
Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, ALLEN.. Planet News. San Francisco: City Lights, 1968, 1968.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; regular issue (a signed, limited issue was available) publisher's wrappers; small tear in the front wrapper; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen.. PLANET NEWS. 1961-1967.. CITY LIGHTS., SAN FRANCISCO, 1968.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Close to fine in printed wrappers. (Mild trace of chaffing at upper edge of rear cover at edge of spine. ) From the library of Judith Malina, co-founder of The Living Theatre, and SIGNED by her on inside front cover. (B)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, ALLEN.. Planet News. San Francisco: City Lights, 1968, 1968.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; regular issue (a signed, limited issue was available) publisher's wrappers; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Planet News. City Lights, San Francisco, 1968.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine first edition of Mr. Ginsberg's poetry collection. In wraps as issued. Signed and dated by Allen Ginsberg on title page with his customary AH circled.
Seller: Gordon & Taylor Books, peekskill, NY, U.S.A.
GINSBERG, ALLEN. Planet News. City Lights, San Francisco, 1968.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American Edition. Number Twenty Three in the Pocket Poet series. Wraps. Near fine, with just a touch of toning and trace rubbing at edges. Signed by Ginsberg. Ginsberg has also contributed a drawing of the earth and stars, with his AH mantra.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Planet News, 1961-1967. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good paperback in original black and white wrappers (two small chips to upper spine; slight wear). First Edition, First Printing. Signed and dated (1979) by Allen Ginsberg on the title page. The Pocket Poets Series, Number Twenty Three.
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1968 144 pages. Wraps. From the collectible and pioneering chapbook publishing series: The Pocket Poets Series - Number 23. 1st edition, 1st printing. Signed by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Books and editor of City Lights Books publications. Signed directly to the title page without inscription. Just beside his name, Mr. Ferlinghetti wrote the word 'editor'. Book is clean and tight. Rubbing along edges. $2 price on rear cover. A nice, unique signed copy.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. Planet News; 1961-1967. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1968.
Price: US$396.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Bound in publisher's original black cloth. Front cover and spine stamped in gilt. With publisher's original black slipcase with paper label on the front. Minimal wear to edges of slipcase. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Ginsberg, Allen. PLANET NEWS. S.F. City Lights 1968, 1968.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated 1st American Edition, soft wrappers, VG with light wear and bit of soiling, SIGNED and dated by Ginsberg in 1992 (HP-3)
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Allen Ginsberg. Planet News [Lynd Ward, + Moloch broadside]. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1968.
Price: US$2900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A significant association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Lynd + May Ward, Cresskill, N.J., from Allen Ginsberg, March 12 '78, old poems + best wishes." Ginsberg's "Moloch" section in Howl was influenced by the Moloch section in master engraver Lynd Ward's wordless novel Wild Pilgrimage (1932). In Ginsberg's intro to Illuminated Poems (published in 1996 a year before Ginsberg passed), he wrote, "Lynd Ward's images of the solitary artist dwarfed by the canyons of a Wall Street Megalopolis lay shadowed behind my own vision of Moloch." Fittingly, in 1978 engraver and printer Michael McCurdy commissioned Ward to illustrate a broadside of Howl's Moloch section for McCurdy's Penmaen Press. Three hundred broadsides with Ward's engraving were printed, one hundred and fifty numbered and signed by both Ward and Ginsberg. It was one of Ward's last publications. This copy of Planet News, a second printing, was inscribed to Ward at the signing of that broadside at Ward's studio in Cresskill. A copy of this large broadside, signed by both Ward and Ginsberg, is included here, number 10 of 300. The book is very good with light soiling to wraps, a touch of sunning to the spine, mild wear to top and bottom of spine, and a shallow chip to back wrap near spine that is about a half-inch long and an eighth-inch deep. The broadside is fine. A fantastic set for a Beat collector.
Seller: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, U.S.A.